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RSS tapesAmerican Fiber Systems Case Study: J.R. Simplot Company
White Paper Information was backed-up and stored using the time-consuming and costly magnetic tapes. Based in Boise, Idaho, the J.R. Simplot Company is one of the largest privately held companies in the world. Like many companies in their industry, Simplot... [11 Jul 2008]
Melbourne Health and BioGrid Australia Turn to New Database to Host Medical Images
White Paper BioGrid Australia recently made available a set of historical Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images from the past 15 years which had only been available on archival tapes, to help researchers understand how to treat epilepsy. [08 Jul 2008]
Grange Insurance Improves Operational Performance With Input Management Console From EMC Captiva
White Paper As Grange expanded its service and product offerings, it needed a system that could help centralize the disparate types of content used in insurance applications and claims - content that ranged from paper forms to photographs, to audio tapes. [05 Jul 2008]
Brics demand feature-packed mobiles
News On the other hand, you can still find cassette tapes in the US. With saturated mobile markets in developed nations, phone manufacturers are having to find ways to squeeze more features into lower-priced phones to capture the tech-savvy consumers in... [09 Jun 2008]
Photos: Supercomputers signal when storms are a-brewing
Photo A robot arm is able to retrieve requested data in seconds, whizzing around data silos plucking out tapes and copying the data into the system. The ECMWF stores climate information and forecasts going back to about 1980, totalling six petabytes of... [06 Jun 2008]
Red Chilli aflame for hosted backup
News However, the company has made savings in staff time checking tapes and the cost of tape stock itself. Independent property finance advisory firm Red Chilli has outsourced its disaster recovery and backup systems to Thinking Safe.silicon.com... [23 May 2008]
Encrypting Critical Backup Data
White Paper Given the recent spate of high-profile cases where lost or stolen backup tapes exposed thousands of confidential health and financial records, the need to encrypt sensitive data has taken on even greater urgency. [10 May 2008]
School District Adopts New File Backup System, Expects to Save $100,000
White Paper The district had used tape backups, which relied on schools to manually change tapes and check data. But even when files were recorded properly, tapes often failed. The San Francisco Unified School District needed a reliable method for backing up... [26 Apr 2008]
Email Archiving and Compliance Solutions for Mid-sized Organizations
White Paper Did you know that nearly 3 out of every 4 companies were required to search backup tapes for old emails in the past 3 years? Small and Mid-market customers struggle to meet ever-mounting e-mail archiving requirements and associated compliance... [11 Apr 2008]
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: The Impact of Digital Discovery
White Paper For example, parties are often required to search back-up tapes, but such tapes are generally designed only for disaster recovery, not for retention and data retrieval, so the cost and burden of reconstructing, restoring, and searching data on... [10 Apr 2008]
Business Continuity: No Longer Out of Reach
White Paper While large companies could afford expensive fibre channel storage area networks (FC SANs), the highly trained staff to manage them, duplicate data centers, channel extenders, and expensive replication software, SMBs were restricted to making... [03 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: My Freecycle identity crisis
Comment There also seems to be no limit to weird and wacky items offered on Freecycle - who would have thought old video tapes or 5kg of rice could find a new home? Recently I had a bed I wanted to get rid of - one that was, I felt, too good to spend the... [01 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars
Comment Here Betamax tapes were more expensive than VHS and had far less capacity. Written on flight VS003 from London to New York and dispatched via a free JetBlue wi-fi service at JFK airport. There are many theories about how one technology or brand... [17 Mar 2008]
How Cisco IT Deploys Closed-Circuit TV Cameras Over the Secure IP Network
White Paper Managing the VCRs, coaxial cabling, and tapes was labor intensive and prone to human error. Cisco uses video surveillance to help keep its work environment secure. Two years ago, Cisco used a combination of cameras and Video Cassette Recorders... [04 Mar 2008]
Double-Take Software Case Study: MWABank
White Paper At the time, the only thing to support recovery if an outage should occur was to rebuild from storage tapes stored at an off site location. MWABank is primarily a direct bank, one of only approximately 50 direct banks in the United States. [04 Mar 2008]
